From 0d2c0492a42635d233191b27252047fa15e3c545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:56:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Doc update. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@6672 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h b/deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h index 4bc8e706cd..9a7c38e6c6 100644 --- a/deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h +++ b/deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h @@ -114,8 +114,22 @@ class FiniteElementData const unsigned int dofs_per_cell; /** - * Number of components and dimension of - * the image space. + * Number of vector components of + * this finite element, and + * dimension of the image + * space. For vector-valued + * finite elements (i.e. when + * this number is greater than + * one), the number of vector + * components is in many cases + * equal to the number of base + * elements glued together with + * the help of the @ref{FESystem} + * class. However, for elements + * like the Nedelec element, the + * number is greater than one + * even though we only have one + * base element. */ const unsigned int components; -- 2.39.5